Revelation 8:9

and a third of the creatures ¹  living in the sea died, and a third of the ships were completely destroyed. ² 

Ex 7:21; Ps 48:7; Isa 2:16; Isa 23:1; Zec 13:8; Re 8:7,10,12; Re 16:3

¹ tn Or “a third of the living creatures in the sea”; Grk “the third of the creatures which were in the sea, the ones having life.”

² tn On the term translated “completely destroyed,” L&N 20.40 states, “to cause the complete destruction of someone or something – ‘to destroy utterly.’ τὸ τρίτον τῶν πλοίων διεφθάρησαν ‘a third of the ships were completely destroyed’ Re 8:9.”